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The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change by Annie Leonard
mobi |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Annie Leonard

The New Economics Foundation, the think tank that produces the annual Happy Planet Index, explains that “it is possible to live long, happy lives with a much smaller ecological footprint ...
( Category: Conservation June 11,2015 )
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles by Standiford Les
epub, azw |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Standiford, Les [Standiford, Les]

FITS AND STARTS IN THE END, THE FUNDING SLOWDOWN ACTUALLY WORKED in Mulholland’s favor. With much of the hardest tasks behind him, any walkouts simply meant fewer men to pay, ...
( Category: Environmental June 10,2015 )
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson
epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Thor Hanson [Hanson, Thor]

FIGURE 9.2.Chili pepper (Capsicum sp.). The thousands of varieties of domestic chili peppers descend from four species native to South America. In the wild, their pungency repels seed-killing fungi as ...
( Category: Trees April 26,2015 )
The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning by Bair Julene
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Bair, Julene [Bair, Julene]

7 IT TOOK ME A YEAR AND A HALF, BUT I FINALLY GOT MY OPPORTUNITY TO RESTORE NIGHT TO OUR FARM. An electrician came out to raise the wire between ...
( Category: Environmental April 5,2015 )
The Biggest Estate on Earth by Bill Gammage
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Bill Gammage

9 A capital tour Until 1788 almost no-one in Australia imagined attack from the sea. Sea and shore belonged to the Dreaming, eternal eddies. Only in Sydney and Adelaide did ...
( Category: Historic December 27,2014 )
Peak Everything by Richard Heinberg
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-21 | Author:Richard Heinberg

Encampment of the Peikann Indians 1840-1843. So how did we arrive at civilization in the first place? It’s a long story, but one worth rehearsing periodically so as to remind ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 3,2014 )
The Development of Economics by William A. Scott
epub |eng | | Author:William A. Scott

His system of thought may be briefly summarized as follows: Society is an organism created by the division of labor, each person being a cog in a machine engaged in ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry November 7,2014 )
The Seafarers - The Whalers by A. Whipple
epub |eng | 1980-11-14 | Author:A. Whipple [Whipple, A.]

A decorative plaque displays the signals the whaleship Northern Light used to pass information to her whaleboats. The first nine signals and the last were made by flying flogs at ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture November 5,2014 )
Bottled and Sold by Peter H. Gleick
epub |eng | | Author:Peter H. Gleick

A New Alchemy If you can come up with two or more pseudoscientific, hyphenated words—some of them adjectives and one of them “water”—you too can market bottled water as a ...
( Category: Environmental Policy October 28,2014 )
Last Chance To See by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
mobi |eng | 1991-12-14 | Author:Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine [Adams, Douglas & Carwardine, Mark]

Blind Panic Assumptions are the things you don't know you're making, which is why it is so disorienting the first time you take the plug out of a wash basin ...
( Category: Ecology October 1,2014 )
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant
azw3 |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:John Vaillant

DESPITE HIS PROPENSITY for envelope-pushing, Hadwin was injured badly in the bush only once—when the pawl on a jack he was using slipped under load, causing the handle to flip ...
( Category: Trees September 25,2014 )
The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
epub |eng | 2008-07-25 | Author:John Vaillant

DESPITE HIS PROPENSITY for envelope-pushing, Hadwin was injured badly in the bush only once—when the pawl on a jack he was using slipped under load, causing the handle to flip ...
( Category: Trees July 26,2014 )
Building an Aquaponics System (The Backyard Prepper Series) (Volume 1) by Anthony D Faircloth
epub |eng | 2012-12-02 | Author:Anthony D Faircloth [Faircloth, Anthony D]

Operating the System In a successfully designed, operated, and balanced system there should be zero Nitrites and low to negligible Nitrate, and depending on the number and type of plants ...
( Category: Organic July 25,2014 )
Mother of God by Paul Rosolie
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-30 | Author:Paul Rosolie

12 The Beached-Whale Paradox Until my ghastly tale is told, this heart within me burns. —SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER I once made a decision so ludicrously ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry June 26,2014 )
Foraging by Paul Chambers
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:Paul Chambers

Crab Apple – Malus sylvestris ‘When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson’s saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian’s nose looks red ...
( Category: Botany June 20,2014 )

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